Daenerys Targaryen aka Khaleesi from Game of Thrones is one of my most favourite characters. Every time she rides Drogon – the dragon or utters the word “Dracarys”, I get goosebumps all over my hand. This season as been pretty exciting and I can’t wait to see the last episode tomorrow, which I am sure is going to be ahhhmazing!!!
This weekend, I decided to draw her sketch along with dragons and everything. But in my excitement I forgot that I have absolutely zero skills to draw a real portrait 😛 So putting my resources to its best utilisation, I tried to draw Khaleesi … but well, she turned out into something else. The good thing about art is there are no rules. One by one, I added different elements as it occurred to me. I blended colors and used a combination of gel pens, pencil colors and acrylic paints.
The Khaleesi in my artworks looks more like an Elvan princess rather than ‘mother of dragons‘.
Here’s a picture-by-picture progression of my work. I love anime eyes and never let go of any opportunity to draw one. Pinterest is my favorite site to look for tutorials to draw eyes. I am terrible at drawing any other feature, so after few more search for tutorials, I managed to draw and paint the lips.
I used my silver and golden pencil colors as best as I could to color the hair.
And then came out the acrylic paints, to set the theme of Fire and Earth.
Once I was done with painting, I used a black pen to draw floral patterns. The choice of pen is very important here as those with fine tips might not work on a painted surface.
The Final Look, because there was no space to add anything else 😉
My palette looks quite messy though.
What do you think?
Are you too excited about the ultimate episode of Game of thrones?
Amazing artwork- you are so talented. Thank you for sharing your work
Seriously never watched any of them
The sketch looks amazing. Daenerys is my favorite character too along with Jon Snow 🙂 Rajlakshmi, you are a fantastic artist, maybe you can paint me some day 🙂
I like the way you did her hair. And the way picture transformed is amazing too. More than that, I love your set of colors… that array that neatly displays your tools… they’re every child’s dream I guess!
Cheers
Oh wow! Look at that transformation. You are so talented. The picture is amazing!
Wow! It is stunning! the eyes, the lips, everything about the portrait…the strokes are master strokes, Raj! Beautifully done! Not initiated into the Game of Thrones yet…but now I am reconsidering!